Deciphering Azimuthal Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions
Nuclear Theory
2015-03-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Abstract
We discuss various sources of azimuthal correlations in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The integral measure Phi is applied to quantify the correlations. We first consider separately the correlations caused by the elliptic flow, resonance decays, jets and transverse momentum conservation. An effect of randomly lost particles is also discussed. Using the PYTHIA and HIJING event generators we produce a sample of events which mimic experimental data. By means of kinematic cuts and particle's selection criteria, the data are analyzed to identify a dominant source of correlations.
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@article{arxiv.1011.1631,
title = {Deciphering Azimuthal Correlations in Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions},
author = {Tomasz Cetner and Katarzyna Grebieszkow and Stanislaw Mrowczynski},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.1631},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
8 pages, minor corrections, to appear in Phys. Rev. C